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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by duxup on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:12AM (#21088336)
Their email addresses?
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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by glloydell on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:31AM (#21088451)
https://www.dol.gov/general/ppii

"PII is defined as information: (i) that directly identifies an individual (e.g., name, address, social security number or other identifying number or code, telephone number, email address"

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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by duxup on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:40AM (#21088501)
Are you sure that's always the case?

School groups for my kids actually share that information as a way for parents to contact each other.

I'm not certain that we can say that any given email list is required to be private.

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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by glloydell on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:24AM (#21088699)
It's not always the case to be sure, but I'd argue that there's a large difference between making the intentional choice to share information and accidentally disclosing it to unintended parties.
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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by 0xdeadb00f on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:44AM (#21088518)
He was able to obtain a lot of personal information from those email addresses wasn't he?
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Re:You are what you leak (2018) by glloydell on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:27AM (#21088420)
It's indicative of poor data privacy practices, as is the failure to remove someone who shouldn't have a access to the information being sent in the emails.
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